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chiago examiner c * * * * sunday sunday a&^l'clnmr five cents elsev.-hebb eight ce^tib i vol xvii no 46 a m Chicago may 20 1917 no single peace is pledge of russia siviiian commander tells arits 1 congress he will troops under iron disci e io assure victory rograd may 19 the coali tion cabinet of russia went on Â» iecÂ«rd to-day against a sep ; â– ..' e peace this v as the first ex ion of the reorganized ministry pdii peace the declaration embodying its in rr.tions issued by the newly reor ganized provisional government fol lo'vs the provisional government re organized and reinforced by rep resentatives of the revolutionary democracy declares it wlli ener getically c?.rry into effect the ideas >: liberty equality and fraternity beneath the standards by which the great russian revolution came to lurth the provisional government is united as to the fundamental lines as to its future action as fol lows policy of separate peace is rejected firstly â€” in policy the provision al government rejecting in con eer with the entire people all thought of a separate peace adopts openly as its aim the re-establish ment of a general peace which lhall not tend toward dominion over other nations seizure of their national possessions nor violent usurpation of their territories â€” a peace without annexation or in demnities and based on the right of nations to decide their own af fairs in the firm conviction that the fall of the regime of czardom in russia and consolidation of the democratic principles of our inter val and external policy will create in the allied democracies new aspi rations toward stable peace and a therhood of nations the provi sional government will take steps tov/ard bringing about an agree ment with the allies on a basis of .â€¢ declaration of april 9 russia will fight o uphold allies scconci â€” convinced that the ue '.:' russia and her ullies would iiy be i source of greatest unknown weather forecast uicago and vicinity â€” fair i td cooler sunday monday sluihits j . d continued cool fretih northeast i : us temperature ... r lorn ending at 7 p m : v.'st ss lowem 56 average 72 j rntal temperature for the day s>s ; >.' of temperature since january 1 so l'tecinitatii.n for twenty-four hours endinc at 7 i m 0.01 inch deficiency of precipitation since january 1 relative humidiu 7 a m 69 2 p m 36 barometric pressure reduced ti sea level 7 a m 29.73 7 d m 29.71 sunrikr tn-day 428 sunset 7:08 pull eovernmrnt report on part h page 3 7,000,000 men dead estimate of henderson london may 19 the number of men killed in the war was estimated at 7,000,000 by arthur henderson member of the war council in an address to-day at richmond he declared the total casualties of the war to be in excess of the population of the united king dom which according to the 1911 census was 45,370,530 t r ready to serve any where colone admits disappointment over wilson's refusal to send him to france new york may 19 colonel theodore roosevelt to-day declared that president wilson can have his services in any capacity thr>.t he wants then coming to new york from his home at oyster kay the former president consented to see newspaper men who besieged him for a statement as to his intentions now that president wilson has declined his offer to raise volunteers he frankly declared that he was greatly disappointed if the administration had accept ed my offer to raise two divisions three and one-half months ago i could have had a force ready for sail ing next monday he declared for black jack persliing select ed to lead the first american force colonel roosevelt had only highest praise he is a fighter he said and i am mighty tickled that he is going right away the former president showed a copy of a communication he sent to the white house yesterday prior to president avilson's definite stand against his volunteer plan the tel egram was as follows i respectfully ask permission im mediately to raise two divisions for immediate service at the front under the bill that has just become a law and hold myself ready to raise four divisions if you so direct i respect fully refer you for details to my last letters to the secretary of war if granted permission i earnestly ask that captain p'rank mccoy be dl 1 rected to report to me at once also if permission is granted i would like to come to washington as soon as the war department is willing to find out what supplies are available and at once to direct the regular offi cers who will be chosen how and where to get to work farwell is re-elected to yale corporation net haven conr jiiiy j 9.â€”re election of joiin villiers i'arwell of Chicago to the vale corporations at the commencement exercises in june was issued to-day when secretary stokes announced that former presi dent Taft now a yale professor and dr frederick t murphy of st louis had declined to oppose mr farwell leaving him in sole possession of the field wilson sends alfonso birthday greetings washington may 19 â€” president wilson sent the following message to king alfonso on the anniversary of the spanish monarch's birthday two days ago pray accept my congrat ulations on this auspicious anniver sary and my best wishes for your well being and the continued pros perity of your historic country Illinois will raise 500,000 home guard state defense council decides to organize huge force for training conscripts also will relieve troops doing police duty and prepare for possible war call a volunteer army of 500,000 men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five will be recruited in illi nois at once under the direction of the state council of defense the army will train conscripts as vrell as older men who may want to enlist in the army navy or the na tional guard later the army will be liable for service anywhere in the state to guard bridges railroads munition piants and public work every town which can raise a com pany consisting of one captain two lieutenants six sergeants eight cor porals and fifty-six privates will be a post of the new army which is to be called the state council of de fense volunteer training corps no other volunteer training organiza tions will be permitted to drill in uniform bear arms within the | state follow military methods this plan was adopted unanimously by the state council of defense yes terday on recommendation of the mil itary committee headed by lieuten [ ant governor john g oglesby secretary of war baker has ap proved the plan besides assuring the security of the state the army will encourage re cruiting in the regular service and | the national guard assist in prepar ing men subject to draft disseminate military knowledge and generally up build the citizens in all future military organizations preferment will be given to this corps by the commander in chief of the military and naval forces of illi nois but the members will not be called into service outside of the state without their consent in placing the plan before the council lieutenant governor oglesby explained there is a large body of i men in Illinois anxious to constitute i themselves into a home guard to be [ ready for a call into the regular army ifnecessary committees will be organized in other cities at once and it is 1 hoped to have several thousand men in uni form before july 4 i ask larger naval camp immediate enlargement of the great lakes naval training station to accommodate 25,000 men will be asked to prevent danger of epidem ics from overcrowding a committee consisting of fred w upham john p hopkins victor a olander j og den armour and dr frank billings was appointed to make a suurvey of the station's needs and go to wash ington to have improvements made miss randall to wed son of dan r hanna pr and mrs j ri ballinger 1603 slleridf.ll road yesterday announced the engagement of their daughter miss ruth g rabdall to dan r hunna jr of cleveland o the bride firoom-to-bo is the son of dan r hanna millionaire publisher of cleve land and a grar.dson of mark a hanna former united states senator the weddlng will take place in about a month senate passes three billion war budget i appropriation will be largest in world's history exceeds cost of entire civil war no horses to europe so only 25,000,000 worth will be bought instead of 73000000 washington may 19 â€” the sen ate passed the 3,390,000,000 army and navy war budget this afternoon without a roll call and without a dissenting voice the bill carries appropriations to taling 563,000,000 more than those contained in the house bill the chief new item is an appropriation of 405,000,000 made immediately avail able to the president for ship build ing with an additional authorized expenditure cÂ£_,34sjioo,op(i for . the same purpose â€” a total of 7f.0,000,000 for shipping tiiri3k billiox for fighting the total provided in the bill for army and naval purposes is nearly 53,000,000,000 the senate added ap proximately 91,000,000 to the house appropriation for the army and 16 000,000 to the house appropriation for the navy just before the final vote was taken the senate reduced the appro priation of 73,000,000 for horses to 25,000,000 on motion of senator weeks o massachusetts the bill contains an amendment sponsored by the administration em powering the president to command eer all ships built or building and all vessel construction facilities and materials in the country to defeat the submarine warfare house favors savt ijjcrf.ase this is the largest appropriation bill ever passed by the legislative body in the world's history it carries more money than the entire cost of the civil war the house approved a conference report to-day on a bill increasing the navy from 87,000 to 150,000 men and the marine corps from 17,400 to 30 000 the bill provides increases in salary so enlisted men in these branches will receive about 30 a month the same as paid to enlisted men under the conscription bill melba to sing here with campanini new york may 19 â€” madams melba will be one of the stars of the next Chicago operatic season the prima donna has accepted from aus tralia cleofonte campanini's offer and will appear ten weeks in Chicago two weeks in boston as well as in new york ma sunday operated on for appendicitis new york may 19 â€” ma sun day wife of the evangelist was suc cessfully operated on to-night for appendicitis at the audubon sani tarium billy sunday and his two sons george and billy jr stayed in an adjoining room during the forty minutes consumed by the operation now the americans is berlin's comment amsterdam may id â€” all ger j man papers print the news of the i arrival of the american destroyer ! flotilla in european watnrs under a single headline the lokal anzieger i heads the item now the ameri cans catholics in germany start peace demand amsterdam may 19 â€” a movement for peace has been launched by the roman catholic clergy of germany it is an nounced in the deutsche kirchen zeitung conferences believed to deal with peace are taking place at german great headquarters those taking part are the kaiser field marshal von hindenburg dr von bethmann-hollweg the german chancellor dr zimmer tnann the german foreign secre tary and count von czernin the austrian foreign minister germans sink 6,641,000 tons captain persius lists destruction of shipping since open ing of war new york may 19 â€” the total tonnage of merchant ships destroyed by germany from the beginning of the war to april 1 is put at 6,641,000 by captain l persius in the berliner tageblatt just before dr karl helf ferich german secretary of the in terior on april 23 told the reichstag that the ships sunk in the first two months of unrestricted submarine warfare had a tonnage of more than 1,600,000 the total of 1.642,500 destroyed in february and march is itemized bv captain persius as follows february ships tons 362 ships including 302 enemy vessels 644.000 t6 >â– t-iit ml vessels 137,500 march 43 ships aggregating 861,000 total 1,642,500 warships and auxiliary cruisers such as the emden karlsruhe and moewe have accounted according to captain persuis for between 400,000 and 500,000 tons of enemy and neu tral shipping these figures he adds have been exceeded by indi vidual achievements of certain sub marine commanders three of these are credited with having accounted for more than 100 ships each aggre gating between 250,000 and 000,000 i tons as evidence of how u-boat activ ities have developed during the war | captain persius gives the following figures of tonnage 181s month tons january 14,000 february 27,000 murch 83,000 i april 33,000 jol6 i jnnuarj--l.vbriiarj 238,000 | march-april 432,000 ! may-june siimmm i july-angnint 273,770 | september 254.600 ! october 303,500 october 393,500 november 408,500 december 415,500 1917 tanunry 430,500 allison helps to raise hospital corps cambridge mass may x9 â€” brent d allison of Chicago former student pacifist will help form units for the american ambulance and transport service in france four teen hundred men americans are be ing sought at once and allison is starting his campaign at harvard new device mastering u=boat peril london may 19 kennedy jones director of food econ omy in an address at edin burgh to-day expressed the be lief the german submarines were beginning to be mastered he said we have been able thanks to the ingenuity of the admiralty and the courage and skill of our sailors to make attacks by a new method on german Ã¼ boats which so far have been attended by success i think the success will con tinue it would trump another trick and might produce an earlier termination of the war than those high in command allow themselves to hope for french warship sunk in battle eight die when british vessel highland corrie is torpedoed without warning paris may 19 â€” the french tor pedo boat destroyer boutefeu was sunk by striking a mine in the naval engagement between entente and austrian vessels in the adriatic may 15 according to a semiofficial state ment to-day the announcement reads a number of french destroyers and hydroaeroplanes took part in the recent naval engagement in the adriatic the destroyer boutefeu striking a mine and sinking while assisting a british cruiser on which v.-as the italian admiral the of ficers and almost all the crew were saved tfie british cruiser referred to icas the dartmouth it was struck by a torpedo after the main engage ment out returned to port eight die on british lixf.r london may 19 â€” the british steamship highland corrie wa tor pedoed without warning may ic the explosion killed five of the crew and three passengers the cunard steamer thracia 2,591 tons was sunk by a submarine april 27 douglas duff fourth officer was the only survivor the submarine commander told him as he was clinging to a capsized lifeboat he says that he preferred to leave dufi to drown rather than to shoot him the fourth officer was picker 1 , up twelve hours later by a french fish ing vessel submarines hunted off california coast san francisco may 19 â€” de troyers hav been ordered to search for a strange submarine sighted off san diego it was learned from lieutenant cclor.el patterson com manding fort rosecrans that such a vessel had been seen aviator ly man doty reported to army officers here yesterday that he saw a sub marine off golden gate 40,000 going with pershing hoover nation's food chif phhij demands power ii hxphges \ right to requisition also insisted upon co-operation of nation expected says wilson but violations must be prevented washington may 19 president wilson to-day an nounced the selection of herbert c hoover as food admin istrator of the country mr hoover has accepted and will begin immediately the work of food administration through the volun tary co-operation and direction of legitimate distributors of foodstuffs and with the help of the women of the country he will serve with . out pay power to pix prices sought by wilson for the present mr hoover's pow ers are limited owing to the failure of congress to pass necessary legis lation in a statement issued to day president wilson outlined the need for these additional powers in cluding the power to fix prices and to requisition food supplies the president's statement follows it is very desirable in order to prevent misunderstandings or alarms and to assure co-opera tion in a vital matter that the country should understand exactly the scope and purpose of the very great powers which i have thought necessary to ask the congress to put in my hands with regard to our food upplies these powers are very great in deed but they are no greater than it has proved necessary to lodge in the other governments which are conducting this momentous war and their object is stimulation and conservation not arbitrary re straint or injurious interference with the normal processes of pro duction will assist farmer , in marketing foods i they are intended to benefit and assist the farmer and all those who i play a legitimate part in the prep aration distribution and marketing of foodstuffs it is proposed to draw a sharp line of distinction between the nor | mal activities of tho government represented in the department of ] marine regiment tdeurope first american contingent proba bly will fight in belgium taking over lines held 1 by british force well trained washington may 19 the first united states forces to europe will number ap proximately 40,000 they will include one division of regular army trooops 25,000 men nine volunteer regi ments of engineers aggregating 12 000 men and one regiment of ma rines 2,600 men announcement that the marines would go was made by secretary daniels to-day every man in the regiment will be a veteran colonel charles a deyen will be in com mand every man in the regiment of marines has seen service during the past two years in hayti san do mingo and cuba in san domingo and hayti they engaged in actual fighting and are considered as hard ened and fit as any men in the regu i lar army j the marine regiment will b 1 armed equipped and organized the \ same as regiments of the regular army establishment with which it will serve the marines are com monly called the soldiers of th sea but when they serve in tha army they become a part of it precautions taken against submarines xo anxiety is felt over attacks by submarines while the army is en route as every precaution has been taken for safe transportation general pershlng's staff is being organized at the war department there is no doubt that he will taka the flower of the young army offi cers to the battlefields of franco i in order that they jnay have every facility fcr observation and study to fit them for service with other units that may be sent to the front his staff therefore will be a great deal larger than that usually detailed with the commander ot a division in time of war j rank of general may be given to pershing the division also will be as mented and will not follow the set ruls for organization because of the service it is to render general fershing before his de parture may be raisedto the rank of lieutenant general or general and given command of all the american troops which may be sentto france the rank of lieutenant general now held by general nelson a miles retired fell into disuse altor i the spanish-american war american troops for belgium is report with the rank of general persh ing would be more nearly on the < footing of general haig and general nivolle the british and french field commanders as a lieutenant general i he would rank with general bridgea bernhardt out first time drives 2 hours new york may 19 mme sarah bernhardt was happy to-night be cause she had outwitted e brigade of reporters and camera men and enjoyed a two hous drive to-day â€” the first time she has been out since taken ill a month ago continued on 6th page 4th column nued on eth page 3d column j subscribe to the united states government liberty loan revolution and bankruptcy may cause foreign governments to 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chiago examiner c * * * * sunday sunday a&^l'clnmr five cents elsev.-hebb eight ce^tib i vol xvii no 46 a m Chicago may 20 1917 no single peace is pledge of russia siviiian commander tells arits 1 congress he will troops under iron disci e io assure victory rograd may 19 the coali tion cabinet of russia went on Â» iecÂ«rd to-day against a sep ; â– ..' e peace this v as the first ex ion of the reorganized ministry pdii peace the declaration embodying its in rr.tions issued by the newly reor ganized provisional government fol lo'vs the provisional government re organized and reinforced by rep resentatives of the revolutionary democracy declares it wlli ener getically c?.rry into effect the ideas >: liberty equality and fraternity beneath the standards by which the great russian revolution came to lurth the provisional government is united as to the fundamental lines as to its future action as fol lows policy of separate peace is rejected firstly â€” in policy the provision al government rejecting in con eer with the entire people all thought of a separate peace adopts openly as its aim the re-establish ment of a general peace which lhall not tend toward dominion over other nations seizure of their national possessions nor violent usurpation of their territories â€” a peace without annexation or in demnities and based on the right of nations to decide their own af fairs in the firm conviction that the fall of the regime of czardom in russia and consolidation of the democratic principles of our inter val and external policy will create in the allied democracies new aspi rations toward stable peace and a therhood of nations the provi sional government will take steps tov/ard bringing about an agree ment with the allies on a basis of .â€¢ declaration of april 9 russia will fight o uphold allies scconci â€” convinced that the ue '.:' russia and her ullies would iiy be i source of greatest unknown weather forecast uicago and vicinity â€” fair i td cooler sunday monday sluihits j . d continued cool fretih northeast i : us temperature ... r lorn ending at 7 p m : v.'st ss lowem 56 average 72 j rntal temperature for the day s>s ; >.' of temperature since january 1 so l'tecinitatii.n for twenty-four hours endinc at 7 i m 0.01 inch deficiency of precipitation since january 1 relative humidiu 7 a m 69 2 p m 36 barometric pressure reduced ti sea level 7 a m 29.73 7 d m 29.71 sunrikr tn-day 428 sunset 7:08 pull eovernmrnt report on part h page 3 7,000,000 men dead estimate of henderson london may 19 the number of men killed in the war was estimated at 7,000,000 by arthur henderson member of the war council in an address to-day at richmond he declared the total casualties of the war to be in excess of the population of the united king dom which according to the 1911 census was 45,370,530 t r ready to serve any where colone admits disappointment over wilson's refusal to send him to france new york may 19 colonel theodore roosevelt to-day declared that president wilson can have his services in any capacity thr>.t he wants then coming to new york from his home at oyster kay the former president consented to see newspaper men who besieged him for a statement as to his intentions now that president wilson has declined his offer to raise volunteers he frankly declared that he was greatly disappointed if the administration had accept ed my offer to raise two divisions three and one-half months ago i could have had a force ready for sail ing next monday he declared for black jack persliing select ed to lead the first american force colonel roosevelt had only highest praise he is a fighter he said and i am mighty tickled that he is going right away the former president showed a copy of a communication he sent to the white house yesterday prior to president avilson's definite stand against his volunteer plan the tel egram was as follows i respectfully ask permission im mediately to raise two divisions for immediate service at the front under the bill that has just become a law and hold myself ready to raise four divisions if you so direct i respect fully refer you for details to my last letters to the secretary of war if granted permission i earnestly ask that captain p'rank mccoy be dl 1 rected to report to me at once also if permission is granted i would like to come to washington as soon as the war department is willing to find out what supplies are available and at once to direct the regular offi cers who will be chosen how and where to get to work farwell is re-elected to yale corporation net haven conr jiiiy j 9.â€”re election of joiin villiers i'arwell of Chicago to the vale corporations at the commencement exercises in june was issued to-day when secretary stokes announced that former presi dent Taft now a yale professor and dr frederick t murphy of st louis had declined to oppose mr farwell leaving him in sole possession of the field wilson sends alfonso birthday greetings washington may 19 â€” president wilson sent the following message to king alfonso on the anniversary of the spanish monarch's birthday two days ago pray accept my congrat ulations on this auspicious anniver sary and my best wishes for your well being and the continued pros perity of your historic country Illinois will raise 500,000 home guard state defense council decides to organize huge force for training conscripts also will relieve troops doing police duty and prepare for possible war call a volunteer army of 500,000 men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five will be recruited in illi nois at once under the direction of the state council of defense the army will train conscripts as vrell as older men who may want to enlist in the army navy or the na tional guard later the army will be liable for service anywhere in the state to guard bridges railroads munition piants and public work every town which can raise a com pany consisting of one captain two lieutenants six sergeants eight cor porals and fifty-six privates will be a post of the new army which is to be called the state council of de fense volunteer training corps no other volunteer training organiza tions will be permitted to drill in uniform bear arms within the | state follow military methods this plan was adopted unanimously by the state council of defense yes terday on recommendation of the mil itary committee headed by lieuten [ ant governor john g oglesby secretary of war baker has ap proved the plan besides assuring the security of the state the army will encourage re cruiting in the regular service and | the national guard assist in prepar ing men subject to draft disseminate military knowledge and generally up build the citizens in all future military organizations preferment will be given to this corps by the commander in chief of the military and naval forces of illi nois but the members will not be called into service outside of the state without their consent in placing the plan before the council lieutenant governor oglesby explained there is a large body of i men in Illinois anxious to constitute i themselves into a home guard to be [ ready for a call into the regular army ifnecessary committees will be organized in other cities at once and it is 1 hoped to have several thousand men in uni form before july 4 i ask larger naval camp immediate enlargement of the great lakes naval training station to accommodate 25,000 men will be asked to prevent danger of epidem ics from overcrowding a committee consisting of fred w upham john p hopkins victor a olander j og den armour and dr frank billings was appointed to make a suurvey of the station's needs and go to wash ington to have improvements made miss randall to wed son of dan r hanna pr and mrs j ri ballinger 1603 slleridf.ll road yesterday announced the engagement of their daughter miss ruth g rabdall to dan r hunna jr of cleveland o the bride firoom-to-bo is the son of dan r hanna millionaire publisher of cleve land and a grar.dson of mark a hanna former united states senator the weddlng will take place in about a month senate passes three billion war budget i appropriation will be largest in world's history exceeds cost of entire civil war no horses to europe so only 25,000,000 worth will be bought instead of 73000000 washington may 19 â€” the sen ate passed the 3,390,000,000 army and navy war budget this afternoon without a roll call and without a dissenting voice the bill carries appropriations to taling 563,000,000 more than those contained in the house bill the chief new item is an appropriation of 405,000,000 made immediately avail able to the president for ship build ing with an additional authorized expenditure cÂ£_,34sjioo,op(i for . the same purpose â€” a total of 7f.0,000,000 for shipping tiiri3k billiox for fighting the total provided in the bill for army and naval purposes is nearly 53,000,000,000 the senate added ap proximately 91,000,000 to the house appropriation for the army and 16 000,000 to the house appropriation for the navy just before the final vote was taken the senate reduced the appro priation of 73,000,000 for horses to 25,000,000 on motion of senator weeks o massachusetts the bill contains an amendment sponsored by the administration em powering the president to command eer all ships built or building and all vessel construction facilities and materials in the country to defeat the submarine warfare house favors savt ijjcrf.ase this is the largest appropriation bill ever passed by the legislative body in the world's history it carries more money than the entire cost of the civil war the house approved a conference report to-day on a bill increasing the navy from 87,000 to 150,000 men and the marine corps from 17,400 to 30 000 the bill provides increases in salary so enlisted men in these branches will receive about 30 a month the same as paid to enlisted men under the conscription bill melba to sing here with campanini new york may 19 â€” madams melba will be one of the stars of the next Chicago operatic season the prima donna has accepted from aus tralia cleofonte campanini's offer and will appear ten weeks in Chicago two weeks in boston as well as in new york ma sunday operated on for appendicitis new york may 19 â€” ma sun day wife of the evangelist was suc cessfully operated on to-night for appendicitis at the audubon sani tarium billy sunday and his two sons george and billy jr stayed in an adjoining room during the forty minutes consumed by the operation now the americans is berlin's comment amsterdam may id â€” all ger j man papers print the news of the i arrival of the american destroyer ! flotilla in european watnrs under a single headline the lokal anzieger i heads the item now the ameri cans catholics in germany start peace demand amsterdam may 19 â€” a movement for peace has been launched by the roman catholic clergy of germany it is an nounced in the deutsche kirchen zeitung conferences believed to deal with peace are taking place at german great headquarters those taking part are the kaiser field marshal von hindenburg dr von bethmann-hollweg the german chancellor dr zimmer tnann the german foreign secre tary and count von czernin the austrian foreign minister germans sink 6,641,000 tons captain persius lists destruction of shipping since open ing of war new york may 19 â€” the total tonnage of merchant ships destroyed by germany from the beginning of the war to april 1 is put at 6,641,000 by captain l persius in the berliner tageblatt just before dr karl helf ferich german secretary of the in terior on april 23 told the reichstag that the ships sunk in the first two months of unrestricted submarine warfare had a tonnage of more than 1,600,000 the total of 1.642,500 destroyed in february and march is itemized bv captain persius as follows february ships tons 362 ships including 302 enemy vessels 644.000 t6 >â– t-iit ml vessels 137,500 march 43 ships aggregating 861,000 total 1,642,500 warships and auxiliary cruisers such as the emden karlsruhe and moewe have accounted according to captain persuis for between 400,000 and 500,000 tons of enemy and neu tral shipping these figures he adds have been exceeded by indi vidual achievements of certain sub marine commanders three of these are credited with having accounted for more than 100 ships each aggre gating between 250,000 and 000,000 i tons as evidence of how u-boat activ ities have developed during the war | captain persius gives the following figures of tonnage 181s month tons january 14,000 february 27,000 murch 83,000 i april 33,000 jol6 i jnnuarj--l.vbriiarj 238,000 | march-april 432,000 ! may-june siimmm i july-angnint 273,770 | september 254.600 ! october 303,500 october 393,500 november 408,500 december 415,500 1917 tanunry 430,500 allison helps to raise hospital corps cambridge mass may x9 â€” brent d allison of Chicago former student pacifist will help form units for the american ambulance and transport service in france four teen hundred men americans are be ing sought at once and allison is starting his campaign at harvard new device mastering u=boat peril london may 19 kennedy jones director of food econ omy in an address at edin burgh to-day expressed the be lief the german submarines were beginning to be mastered he said we have been able thanks to the ingenuity of the admiralty and the courage and skill of our sailors to make attacks by a new method on german Ã¼ boats which so far have been attended by success i think the success will con tinue it would trump another trick and might produce an earlier termination of the war than those high in command allow themselves to hope for french warship sunk in battle eight die when british vessel highland corrie is torpedoed without warning paris may 19 â€” the french tor pedo boat destroyer boutefeu was sunk by striking a mine in the naval engagement between entente and austrian vessels in the adriatic may 15 according to a semiofficial state ment to-day the announcement reads a number of french destroyers and hydroaeroplanes took part in the recent naval engagement in the adriatic the destroyer boutefeu striking a mine and sinking while assisting a british cruiser on which v.-as the italian admiral the of ficers and almost all the crew were saved tfie british cruiser referred to icas the dartmouth it was struck by a torpedo after the main engage ment out returned to port eight die on british lixf.r london may 19 â€” the british steamship highland corrie wa tor pedoed without warning may ic the explosion killed five of the crew and three passengers the cunard steamer thracia 2,591 tons was sunk by a submarine april 27 douglas duff fourth officer was the only survivor the submarine commander told him as he was clinging to a capsized lifeboat he says that he preferred to leave dufi to drown rather than to shoot him the fourth officer was picker 1 , up twelve hours later by a french fish ing vessel submarines hunted off california coast san francisco may 19 â€” de troyers hav been ordered to search for a strange submarine sighted off san diego it was learned from lieutenant cclor.el patterson com manding fort rosecrans that such a vessel had been seen aviator ly man doty reported to army officers here yesterday that he saw a sub marine off golden gate 40,000 going with pershing hoover nation's food chif phhij demands power ii hxphges \ right to requisition also insisted upon co-operation of nation expected says wilson but violations must be prevented washington may 19 president wilson to-day an nounced the selection of herbert c hoover as food admin istrator of the country mr hoover has accepted and will begin immediately the work of food administration through the volun tary co-operation and direction of legitimate distributors of foodstuffs and with the help of the women of the country he will serve with . out pay power to pix prices sought by wilson for the present mr hoover's pow ers are limited owing to the failure of congress to pass necessary legis lation in a statement issued to day president wilson outlined the need for these additional powers in cluding the power to fix prices and to requisition food supplies the president's statement follows it is very desirable in order to prevent misunderstandings or alarms and to assure co-opera tion in a vital matter that the country should understand exactly the scope and purpose of the very great powers which i have thought necessary to ask the congress to put in my hands with regard to our food upplies these powers are very great in deed but they are no greater than it has proved necessary to lodge in the other governments which are conducting this momentous war and their object is stimulation and conservation not arbitrary re straint or injurious interference with the normal processes of pro duction will assist farmer , in marketing foods i they are intended to benefit and assist the farmer and all those who i play a legitimate part in the prep aration distribution and marketing of foodstuffs it is proposed to draw a sharp line of distinction between the nor | mal activities of tho government represented in the department of ] marine regiment tdeurope first american contingent proba bly will fight in belgium taking over lines held 1 by british force well trained washington may 19 the first united states forces to europe will number ap proximately 40,000 they will include one division of regular army trooops 25,000 men nine volunteer regi ments of engineers aggregating 12 000 men and one regiment of ma rines 2,600 men announcement that the marines would go was made by secretary daniels to-day every man in the regiment will be a veteran colonel charles a deyen will be in com mand every man in the regiment of marines has seen service during the past two years in hayti san do mingo and cuba in san domingo and hayti they engaged in actual fighting and are considered as hard ened and fit as any men in the regu i lar army j the marine regiment will b 1 armed equipped and organized the \ same as regiments of the regular army establishment with which it will serve the marines are com monly called the soldiers of th sea but when they serve in tha army they become a part of it precautions taken against submarines xo anxiety is felt over attacks by submarines while the army is en route as every precaution has been taken for safe transportation general pershlng's staff is being organized at the war department there is no doubt that he will taka the flower of the young army offi cers to the battlefields of franco i in order that they jnay have every facility fcr observation and study to fit them for service with other units that may be sent to the front his staff therefore will be a great deal larger than that usually detailed with the commander ot a division in time of war j rank of general may be given to pershing the division also will be as mented and will not follow the set ruls for organization because of the service it is to render general fershing before his de parture may be raisedto the rank of lieutenant general or general and given command of all the american troops which may be sentto france the rank of lieutenant general now held by general nelson a miles retired fell into disuse altor i the spanish-american war american troops for belgium is report with the rank of general persh ing would be more nearly on the < footing of general haig and general nivolle the british and french field commanders as a lieutenant general i he would rank with general bridgea bernhardt out first time drives 2 hours new york may 19 mme sarah bernhardt was happy to-night be cause she had outwitted e brigade of reporters and camera men and enjoyed a two hous drive to-day â€” the first time she has been out since taken ill a month ago continued on 6th page 4th column nued on eth page 3d column j subscribe to the united states government liberty loan revolution and bankruptcy may cause foreign governments to 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